Sound Recordings, Great Britain and Ireland
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Great Britain and Ireland
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A533r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Haxey, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.4894, -0.8402 ); Subject - Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland( 52.4464, -9.485 ); Subject - Dunster, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.1824, -3.44608 ); Subject - Marshfield, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom( 51.4619, -2.32 ); Subject - Drayton, Somerset, England, United Kingdom( 51.0192, -2.85194 ); Subject - Wales, United Kingdom( 52.5, -3.5 ); Subject - Beck Hole, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4095, -0.73704 ); Subject - Goathland, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 54.4, -0.71954 )
Date(s): [1970s]
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 37' 11".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414584
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
Soundtrack of a BBC One television programme, 'Here We Come A-Wassailing', broadcast on the 22 December 1977 at 22:20 [this copy recorded direct from the television]. Incomplete copy of a programme which looks at Christmas and New Year customs in Great Britain and Ireland. Actuality interspersed with male narrator relating the histories/descriptions of the customs.
Television announcement; wassailing an apple tree; wassail song (unidentified folk group); burning the ashen faggot; Christmas Eve carolling in Dunster ; the Wren Boys, Listowel (Ireland) and hunting the wren custom on St. Stephen's Day - music, dance, now a house visiting event, collecting for charity; Jack Carroll sings Boys of ?; the Marshfield Mummers, Marshfield (Gloucestershire); the Mari Llwyd, New Year's night house visiting custom in Wales, which includes a hobby horse and sung exchanges (in Welsh); wassail song [incomplete], Drayton in Somerset.
[Tape track starts mid-programme] The singing of 'John Barleycorn' before the Haxey Hood, followed by a description of the custom, the Fool's speech, the sound of the sway, the singing of 'Farmer's Boy'; Plough Sunday service and blessing the plough in Goathland (North Yorkshire); Plough Monday Plough Stotts performance in Goathland and environs, including Beck Hole; January 10th, Burghead [tape ends].
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